i agree the hanger bays too have too much tact slots. I believe it should be hanger bays that hold 3 strike craft for Tec and vasari for 4 tacticals and advent get one that gets 5 for 6 tacticals. That wasy it would be 9 for 12 and 10 for 12. In my mind that's pretty even but i think it should be way more expensive than a carrier. The thing is that having 3 for 5 isn't practical expecially if advent are to have more they would need one taht would get 6 for 10 or something. Either you need to double tactical slots to make everything more percise. (Like teh support for ships) Make a turret 2 slots and a hanger bay 7 and hold 3. There needs to be a finer ballance. It may be confusing for a while but it would work. That way instead of 35 tacticals hoolding 8 4 tactical hanger bays it could hold 10 7 tactical hanger bays. Much more practical and much more balanced.

P.S. Sorry for being unorganized.

Does anyone else see this as a problem? The differences between factions seem very superficial and designed mainly to look initially different without having much of an actual distinction in gameplay. In the end it barely matters if you play with Vasari or Advent carriers or hangars as the result is the same for the same amount of money and space.

Strikecraft tend to be better in mass....I tend not to build any, or I want at least a couple.  And I also put fighters in them as well, because they can pick off scouts trying to cross my systems, or they can destroy light siege raiders.  You need a heck of a lot of defenses to stand up to a concentrated fleet.

Turrets are definately better than supporting each other when concentrated, but I almost never build them like this...I spread them out a bit, because I intend for them to beef up my fleet in defense.  I can't tell you how many times I have flown around a turret cluster, burned the world from the other side, even colonizing it occasionally, and left the turret/repair bay cluster intact.

I think all of the strikecraft are pretty comparable and effective.  One of the main things I find handy with Advent is that the carriers are easier to retreat before they are killed because they can take such a beating.

Eh, not really.  Structures don't have shield mitigation, so you can't do a  HP to HP comparison.  The real benefit to static defense is that you don't need to further cripple your economy by increasing your fleet supply.  Static defenses are strictly one time outlay's.  Fleet supply is a continual pain in the butt.

True, shield mitigation effectively triples a ships survivability, but the hangar bays have almost three times as much armor and the corresponding structure to take advantage of it.  You make a good point about the supply cap, all I was trying to say was they were reasonably priced for the units they field and the abuse they can take.  If defensive structures got significantly more powerful, everyone would be forced to turtle and games would take forever.